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The Destination

I have never really been good at describing my feelings. It takes me a while to find the words to describe or explain my thoughts. What I think I'm good at, is making analogies to break things down and explain them. One of the things people have been telling me since learning about my adoption is that I should be grateful for where I'm at now. The thing is, I am already aware of this. I got to where I'm at because of choices I made after I left "home". When I talk about my thoughts and express how I feel about my adoption, I am in no way dismissing my present. But it is imperative to acknowledge that my past had affected me. This is something that I will not only carry for the rest of my life but I will have to deal with from this point onward. At any rate, here is one of the analogies I've been sharing with most people around me in an attempt to explain not just how I feel about being in a hidden adoption, but also where I'm at now. Imagine for a mom